R Tennessee Senate · District 11 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Bo Watson

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Session

Total votes

23,676

all sessions

Attendance

94%

1,301 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 76% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

23,471

voted in favor

Nay

174

voted against

Absent

1,301

missed votes

Total cast

23,676

across all sessions

Crossed party

130

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 536

Sports - As enacted, revises present law relative to an intercollegiate athlete's name, image, or likeness. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Yea

Passed

38–0

Apr 21, 2025

SB 144

Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, generally requires that all monies received under the sales and use tax from the sale, use, consumption, or distribution of new or used tires on or after July 1, 2025, must be earmarked and allocated to the highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

Yea

Passed

14–0

Apr 21, 2025

SB 1459

Bartlett - Subject to local approval, repeals the animal control program. - Amends Chapter 55 of the Private Acts of 1993; as amended.

Yea

Passed

37–0

Apr 21, 2025

HJR 318

Memorials, Government Officials - Urges Governor and State Capitol Commission to name new entrance to Motlow Tunnel "Heritage Gateway Entrance" in honor of workers who helped build Tennessee State Capitol. -

Yea

Passed

13–1

Apr 21, 2025

SB 1082

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds certain criminal offenses to the list of dangerous felonies for purposes of the offense of possessing a firearm or antique firearm during commission or attempt to commit a dangerous felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Yea

Passed

14–0

Apr 21, 2025

SR 152

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Atleana Murrell, Salutatorian, Middle College High School -

Yea

Passed

38–0

Apr 21, 2025

SR 178

Memorials, Academic Achievement - Nove'a Glennise Rippy, Salutatorian, Whites Creek High School -

Yea

Passed

38–0

Apr 21, 2025

SJR 470

Memorials, Recognition - Jacob Slaughter -

Yea

Passed

38–0

Apr 21, 2025

SB 1075

Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands the definition of "machine gun" to include any part, or combination of parts, designed and intended solely for use in converting a firearm into a machine gun; increases the classification for the intentional or knowing possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a machine gun from a Class E to a Class C felony; reclassifies certain other offenses involving the possession of firearm or handgun ammunition; makes a defendant ineligible for parole if convicted of aggravated assault that involved the use of a firearm from within a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Yea

Passed

12–2

Apr 21, 2025

SB 1456

Hardeman County - Subject to local approval, increases, from 85 percent to 92 percent, the assumed property tax collection rate in setting the general tax rate for the county general fund and creating a county budget that covers expenditures for the next appropriation year. - Amends Chapter 68 of the Private Acts of 1937; as amended.

Yea

Passed

37–0

Apr 21, 2025